Bill Text: NY A00365 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes free use of public campsites, parks and other places of public recreation in the state by former prisoners of war or recipients of the purple heart.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to veterans' affairs [A00365 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00365-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          365
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Veterans' Affairs
       AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
         relation to the free use of campsites by former prisoners of war
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
    2  vation law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    S 13.19  Free use of campsites.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any
    5  other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or  an  amputee,  or
    6  ANY  FORMER  PRISONER  OF  WAR,  A RECIPIENT OF THE PURPLE HEART, OR any
    7  veteran of the wars of the United States, SUCH VETERAN who  has  at  any
    8  time  been  awarded  by  the federal government an allowance towards the
    9  purchase of an automobile or is eligible for  such  an  award  shall  be
   10  permitted  to  use  any  of the public campsites, parks and other public
   11  places of recreation in this state, upon the same terms  and  conditions
   12  as  apply  to the general public, but without the payment of any fees or
   13  other charges for the use of such  campsites,  parks  and  other  public
   14  places of recreation.
   15    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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